The Measure of Mercy: Islamic Justice, Sovereign Power, and Human Rights in Iran.

In January 2000, Iranian government agents hailed a last-minute death sentence reprieve as an expression of Islamic human rights. Officials mobilized a native source of human rights in the invocation of mercy. For some, the proliferation of human rights norms situates a state in the fold of modern...

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Publicado en:Cultural Anthropology Vol. 21; no. 4; pp. 570 - 603
Autor principal: Osanloo, Arzoo
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Publicado: Wiley-Blackwell November 2006
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